852.00/5994: Telegram
The Ambassador in the United Kingdom (Bingham) to the Secretary of State
[Received July 14—11:10 a.m.]
469. My 462, July 12, 6 p.m.29 The British Government has now completed its proposals for an attempted compromise solution of the Spanish deadlock. They will be communicated to the members of the Non-intervention Committee this afternoon to be referred by them to their respective governments and will come before a meeting of the Non-intervention Committee on Friday.
[Page 360]The text of these proposals which has been received through the courtesy of the Foreign Office and is to be held strictly confidential until its publication here, probably tomorrow morning, is quoted below. An official of the Foreign Office said that they were uncertain as to the reception the proposals would receive in the Committee but that the Foreign Office hoped all the governments represented would at least be prepared to express their views.
[For text of the British proposals, here omitted, see British Cmd. 5521, Spain No. 2 (1937): International Committee for the Application of the Agreement Regarding Non-intervention in Spain: Proposals Submitted by His Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom, London, July 14, 1937.]
It will be particularly noted that the British Government proposes the recognition of the two parties in Spain as possessing a status which justifies them in exercising belligerent rights at sea in accordance with the rules governing such exercise and subject to the fulfillment of certain specified conditions.
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